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Track Listings
1 | She Has Funny Cars |
2 | Somebody to Love |
3 | My Best Friend |
4 | Today |
5 | Comin' Back to Me |
6 | 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds |
7 | D. C. B. A.-25 |
8 | How Do You Feel |
9 | Embryonic Journey |
10 | White Rabbit |
11 | Plastic Fantastic Lover |
12 | In The Morning |
13 | J. P. P. Mc Step B. Blues |
14 | Go To Her |
15 | Come Back Baby |
16 | Somebody to Love |
17 | White Rabbit |
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Manufacturer : Legacy Recordings
- Item model number : 2193798
- Original Release Date : 2003
- Run time : 58 minutes
- Date First Available : February 10, 2007
- Label : Legacy Recordings
- ASIN : B0000A0DRY
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,393 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #61 in Classic Psychedelic Rock
- #124 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #149 in Vocal Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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While SURREALISTIC PILLOW is not the prime example of the band's preferred overtly political, dense musical style (that would be their fourth album, CROWN OF CREATION), SURREALISTIC PILLOW is, far and away, their best work. A group with intense internal stresses, this album found the band in a fleeting moment of dynamic suspension. The Airplane would never sound so unified and yet so eclectic ever again. SURREALISTIC PILLOW has wandered, but not too far, from Jefferson Airplane's folk/blues/vocal harmony roots. Although they sing and play together, each member of the band has a distinctive sound, all of which mesh perfectly on this album.
"She Has Funny Cars" opens the album with a jungle beat, wailing guitars, and offbeat lyrics, immediately followed by the anthematic "Somebody To Love" (written by Darby Slick but sung by Grace Slick). Grace's voice has been described by some as "steely" and by others as "a silken-sailed clipper ship," and everyone is both right and wrong. The former I. Magnin model's powerful contralto both challenges and invites her bandmates (and the listener) to keep pace, being all at once playful, petulant, demanding, ingenuous, and erotic.
"My Best Friend" is a nice vocal harmony number that goes well with whatever everybody was smoking that long-ago summer; and "Today" and "Comin' Back To Me" are paeans to lost love, the former from the perspective of the leaving party, and the latter from the one left behind (and still tear-inducing).
The oddly named "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" and "DCBA-25" are drug songs, pure and simple, from that innocently luminescent time where no harm was done to anyone, the consciousness expanded, and God was seen on a daily basis. Both songs presage the Airplane's emergent distinctive style, musically and thematically.
"How Do You Feel" revisits the tenor of "My Best Friend," to be followed by what many people consider the best song on the album, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen's brief (less than two minutes), beautiful, complex, finger-picking instrumental masterpiece, "Embryonic Journey."
The original album closes with the Lewis Carroll-inspired cautionary drug anthem, "White Rabbit" and then singer Marty Balin's "Plastic Fantastic Lover," which he claims to be about television, but transcends itself into a song about free love.
The bonus tracks "In The Morning," "JPP McStep B. Blues," "Go To Her," "Come Back Baby" and mono AM radio mixes of "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" were all recorded during the SURREALISTIC PILLOW sessions, but never used. Each spotlights and highlights the amazing talents of the members of Jefferson Airplane, and each has its rightful home on this disc.
SURREALISTIC PILLOW belongs next to The Beatles' SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, the Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS, Jimi Hendrix's ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, Cream's DISRAELI GEARS, and The Doors' THE DOORS as a definitive addition to the canon of ageless rock albums released in that one amazing year of 1967.
Her neon mouth with the bligitaw * smile
Is nothing but a 'lectric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's a part of the carnival time.
Super-seal-a-ted * chrome-colored clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover
Your rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothin' but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished,
Is the best I ever have seen
Cosmeta-gated *plugged into me
And never ever find another
And I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover
The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste
Data control and IBM
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is drainin' me
On my plastic fantastic lover
Notes:
these are the real lyrics!
1 Bligitaw - hit in the mouth with a sledge hammer
2- Super-seal-a-ted - a Marty Balin made up word past tense of super sealed
3 Cosmeta-gated - another made up word - combination of cosmetic and gated - gated as a plug and also logic circuit, and-gates, or-gates used in computers of the time
Plastic Fantastic Lover is just what it sounds like - it's science fiction from 1967, about a future with a female robot and exclusive love slave who the author keep hidden in his room. The stuff about TV is just Balin complaining about the general level of junk on TV. His interest in his robot keeps him "drained" of certain fluids. His concept of a plastic fantastic lover replacing a real girl could really be applied today to certain internet sites...
Surrealistic Pillow is the one album, other than Beatles Sgt. Pepper, that really represents the Summer of Love or for that matter the sixties. Just wonderful from beginning to end. One of the top ten Best Rock albums of the sixties... of all time! Listen to this for the authentic psychedelic experience!
Everyone has heard this but if you don't have this latest mix, you've never really heard it. The newest version of this CD is just SPECTACULAR. 40+ years ago it was recorded and 20 years after the invention of the CD RCA/BMI finally did a good job of remixing. (I had 3 previous releases and the LP and this one is it) Yes. better than my '67 vintage vinyl - very 3 dimensional on a good sound system capable of resolving small details!
Includes song "Go to Her", a cut so good, I wonder why it wasn't on the original?
"Jefferson Airplane": story was that early blues folk singer Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929) had a musicologist who followed him around. This guy knew the origin of all Blind Lemon's songs. When he didn't know who wrote the song, he would say "well that's one of Jefferson's Airplanes"! This was the recondite source of the band's name.
JA was originally a folk-rock group with deep folk-singing/blues roots...